Wait 'til next year

The NFL kicks off tonight. I'd like to say that Cincinnati has an NFL team although I'd like to maintain my credibility as a semi intelligent person.

At least we're getting pretty used to saying "wait til next year" around week five.

For the life of me, I will never understand why people support an organization as lousy and awful as the Bengals. For 1/5th the price, you can cruise right up to Clifton and see a decent college football product. But people insist on spending hundreds of dollars a week to watch this miserable display of football.

I used to think that being a US Senator was the most disgusting, dishonorable profession in the world until I started reading about Mike Brown.

Think about it, Mike Brown could be a US Senator...

1) He has basically voted "present" since he inherited the team in 1990.
2) No matter how horrible of an owner he is, his pockets are always full.
3) If he failed to show up for work for, say, the next fifteen years, would anyone notice?
4) He's single handedly extracted hundred of millions of dollars from taxpayer's and provided absolutely nothing in return.
5) After the taxpayer's were bent over for millions upon millions of dollars, he got to name the stadium they paid for after himself (OK it was his dad).
6) Every six years or so(election time), he fires a coach, tells us things are going to be different and it's exactly the same.

In all seriousness, Mike Brown is said to have a soft spot for players who have run afoul of the law. In fact, he's given some players chance, upon chance, upon chance. Just one time, I'd like to see Senator Brown shows some compassion for the people who lined his pockets with $700 million bucks.

The rules in the NFL make it an almost mathematical possibility to be so horrible for so long. If you want to run a successful NFL franchise, read Mike Brown's business plan (assuming he has one) ..... then do the opposite.

By the way, the over under for this season's team wins is at 7.5. Have you ever seen a Bengals team over achieve? Take the under.

Until then. Go Bears!!!!!